From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 20 02:38:09 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E6EB16A4CE for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 02:38:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2A3E43D48 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 02:38:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (blackwater.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B20192BD6A for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:38:05 +1000 (EST) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id E53B0511FB; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:08:02 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:08:02 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: "Dr. Sichendra Bista" Message-ID: <20040920023802.GG67689@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="BU7+kJFeeDlNltZg" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multihead Consoles in FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 02:38:09 -0000 --BU7+kJFeeDlNltZg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday, 19 September 2004 at 20:20:08 +0545, Dr. Sichendra Bista wrote: > I would love to explore if there are some people around who are > working on or created multihead consoles in FreeBSD as stated at > http://www.c3sl.ufpr.br/fourhead or http://startx.times.lv. (Please > visit the links before Well, it would be good to say what people might find there. They might be reading mail offline. > I have successfully created one with FC1 Linux, but would love to > know if there are someone in the BSD world. (I am thinking of > migrating to BSD)! I'm writing this from in front of seven displays. See http://www.lemis.com/grog/hardware.html for an older photo with only five monitors, also with a description of how I did it. I have these displays spread across four machines, one of them a laptop, while the one at http://www.c3sl.ufpr.br/fourhead is on a single machine. That's not an issue, though: if that's what you want to do, it would work equally well on one machine. Note also that you don't need four video cards for this configuration. The cards they're using come in dual-head versions, so two would be enough. One big difference between the configuration you describe and mine is that mine only needs one keyboard and mouse. I consider this a great advantage. If you really want separate keyboards, I suppose it would be possible, though I haven't investigated. If you want to follow up on the technical aspects of this sort of thing, FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org might be a better mailing list. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --BU7+kJFeeDlNltZg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBTkKKIubykFB6QiMRAq3BAJ9ZGYvQyJPgYfXk1mLK+t5aTrYFgwCfR0TK TKoOl85W/mwzJ6NRi2mpbP0= =D2oO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --BU7+kJFeeDlNltZg--